An Empath Reads the United States of America

The aftershocks from the latest Presidential election have been jaw dropping. In my 51 years of life, I have never seen such a divisive and explosive campaign or result, and it crosses both sides of the aisle. People have literally lost their minds to the point they are no longer thinking rationally but are acting through pure (negative) emotion. Even people I consider intellectual--who pride themselves on thinking logically--are displaying wounded animals instincts.

My message to Trump supporters: Get over yourselves. You can say what you want about sucking it up during the Obama years, but this is not the same thing! The Divide and Conquer tactics of the supposed "elite" have ramped this election up to new heights because Trump was not their man. You could see it in pretty much every story put out by the mainstream media. Although FOX sort of came around, they pretty much only did so because Trump supporters are their market share. Obama and Hillary are totally controlled by the "elite" so of course they do not have to deal with the same backlash from the media propaganda machine. Look at what has happened over the course of the last year. Even the Bush family all voted for Hillary! If that has not told you how controlled we are in this country, you are blind. Telling people you don't have to respect them or their choices because they didn't respect yours during the Obama years is petty and childish. Two wrongs do not make a right! Grow up and show yourselves to be bigger than that! Show these people you still love them! Only that will show them the sort of people you truly are.

My message to Hillary supporters: Your family, friends and neighbors who voted for Trump are still the same people you knew and loved before the election. They are not racist, homophobic bigots who are ready to rescind immigrant status. They still love you. They still love their families and desire to see people provided for. This usually just happens to focus on jobs as opposed to focusing on welfare. Understand they have been trained to believe welfare takes up a bigger chunk of tax money that it actually does and have been brainwashed not to see the much larger portions of tax money that go toward corporate welfare and the war machine. They really don't desire to see people disenfranchised and starving.

The bottom line is this: Regardless of who is President, know that true power does not lie in that office. True power lies within each and every one of us! Regardless of Presidential policy, regardless of the way the media is used as propaganda, we all have a choice. We can choose to become the mindless animals the "elite" want us to become and fight each other until they have to lock us all up to control us. We can choose to remember the beings of light and love that we are and come together to fix the massive problems in our country today.

What happens in our country tomorrow will be the direct result of how we respond today! Make your actions count! Choose to come together with your fellow human beings to change the world! BE the change you wish to see in the world! Think and be deliberate instead of playing to someone else's script! We are so much more than we are showing ourselves to be at present!!!

~CSE

Choose LOVE!!!

Beyond Politics

Here in the US, presidential politics are as ugly as I have ever seen them. Everyone (myself included) has been trying to argue why the other candidates are unworthy to hold office. The worst part is, our politics have gotten so bad we are now attributing terrible evils to not only the candidates themselves but also to the people who would vote for those candidates. It is time to take a good, hard look at this practice. We are allowing the powers that be to divide us even farther by seeing our fellow humans as evil because they would vote a certain way. This needs to stop!

Let's take a look at Donald Trump. He's egotistical. His morals are lacking. He's harsh and gruff and often has a case of foot-in-mouth disease. He promotes separation by his talk of building a wall along the Mexican border and his scrutiny of Islamic immigrants to the US. The memes I've seen on Facebook about him are terrible. People equate him to Hitler. They believe those who want to vote for him are mindless, brainwashed sheeple who themselves will go along with acts of separation and evil in the name of safety. One question: is this true?

Let's take a look at Hillary Clinton. She flip flops on the issues over time. She's deceptive and will say anything to anyone if it will get her elected. Her handling of Benghazi leaves many more questions than answers. Her personal email server problem at best makes her look incompetent. At worst, it makes her look criminal. Many people believe she thirsts for war. We're perhaps easiest on her supporters, seeing them as easily fooled and naive.

Let's take a look at Bernie Sanders. He's considered a socialist whose ideas for change would bankrupt the country with all his freebie handouts. (Newsflash: the US is already bankrupt!) He is considered clueless with ideas that would never work by his opposition and his supporters are seen as lazy kids and welfare recipients who are already living on taxpayer dollars.

Let me pose this question: what would actually happen when one of these three get in? Will the world stop spinning? Will we begin to lock up our Moslem brothers and sisters because of their religion? We will go to war with Syria or Iran and watch our children be sacrificed? Will our country become so bankrupt that we have to fight each other in the streets for scraps of food because our economy has totally collapsed?

The answers to these questions lie within each one of us. Who are we inside and how will we choose to deal with the problems that will inevitably show up? The outcomes of our lives are not determined by who becomes president. What shows up will be the result of who we are as people.

Can a president force us into war? No. We can stand up against it. Can a president round people up into concentration camps based on race or religion or political affiliation? No. We have the power to join together and stand up for our own rights and the rights of others. Will our country's bankruptcy force us to fight for survival? No. We still have the ability to distribute necessary food and supplies if there is a problem with money. The point is, a president can lead us in a certain direction, but it is our choice to actually go there.

We need to begin to search inside for who we truly are. Are we love? Are we peace? Are we joy? If something outside ourselves is not congruent with this, it is up to us to fix it. The only way to change the world is to BE the change!

Allow yourself to see beyond politics! Know yourself. See your neighbors for who they truly are--beautiful beings of light and love who also desire to live in peace and abundance. If we choose to do this, our world will change for the better.

~CSE

     

Playing Small

I've spent most of my life living under the radar. I typically don't like to put myself out there in any real way, mainly because I'm afraid of getting hurt. Consequently, my life has been ordinary, run-of-the-mill for the most part. The thing is, I don't feel particularly fulfilled. While I am extremely happy with the job I did as mother to my three beautiful children, the raising kids part of my life is pretty much over. Playing small served me well as a single parent because it also protected my children, but it's time to move on. What strikes me now (and is even coming out in my dreams) is that playing small was a choice. If I want to change my life, it is going to involve risk. I need to make a conscious choice to step out and play big if I want to make any real impact on the world.

I know I am not alone in my struggle. So many of us run our daily lives on a hamster wheel, running really hard and getting absolutely nowhere. We understand there is a lot more world to explore outside the cage. We are just so comfortable inside the cage--where we know to expect food, shelter and warmth--that we are afraid to risk escape. We never make the decision to explore the world outside the cage.

The thing is, playing small never helped anyone. It hasn't helped others because I have not been using my gifts and talents as fully as I could to change myself and the world. My attempts have been mere shadows of what I have inside because of my fear of pain. Playing small certainly hasn't helped me feel fulfilled either. I know I have so much more inside me, screaming to break free.

Your playing small hasn't helped you either. What gifts and talents have you neglected? What changes could you have made that could have impacted the world in a bigger and more meaningful way? What holds you back from the life of your dreams?

Understand that it is never too late to change. Change is a choice. Even though it is different--even though you know change could bring pain--you have to consciously be willing to risk pain in order to attain something more.

Playing small never helped anyone, especially yourself. Make the choice to allow yourself to move past fear and use the gifts and talents you were given. You'll never know what role you can play in the world if you don't pluck up the courage to try. You may just find yourself living the life of your dreams!

~CSE

  

Every Day Is A New Beginning!

My life has definitely not been going as planned. Most days I feel as though my potential is virtually untapped, even though I spend enormous energy attempting to make a difference in the world. Often, I am frustrated when I encounter people who say they want to change the world, but show no evidence of that desire in their actions. Even this blog has suffered of late as it becomes difficult to get my message of connection out to people caught up in separation programming.

As I see the light of dawn peeking through my window this morning, I am again reminded that there is a whole new day in front of me, still unblemished by the often callous and cruel world. I am able to leave the pain of yesterday behind to focus on what I can create in the world today!

Pain is as much of a choice as happiness. Yes, the world can beat me down. That doesn't mean I have to stay there. I can always choose to be thankful for what the pain has taught me and move beyond it.

Today I choose to move beyond the pain. Today I choose to live life to the fullest, building on the lessons I have acquired in this lifetime. My own personal happiness is definitely up to me!

Every day is a new beginning! Allow yourself to let go of the past and create the world you desire to live in!

~CSE

  

The Blessing In The Struggle

There are times when I look back at things that happened in my life and think, "This would have made excellent material for a soap opera!" There was the time I spent in a cult, fortunately escaping before the leader got put on death row for killing other cult members. There was the time I lost my firstborn child to a terrible infection shortly after she was born. Then there was my divorce and all the years I spent as a single mom, going through the struggles of raising three kids on my own, two of whom had special needs. Yes, soap opera material for sure!

Even though I make the above statement in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way, I definitely had my share of very real struggles. Oddly enough, I no longer see those experiences as struggles though. I see them as blessings.

Each one of those experiences gave me valuable insights into myself, other people and life. Having to wade through the muck forced me to look for new ways of doing things because my old ways of doing things were not effective in those situations. The effort it took to get through such experiences made me much stronger than I was before.

When I look back at all the experiences of my life--both positive and negative, one thing stands out. The high points always felt good (thrilling even), but their only real value was as respite from the storm. It was the low points where I actually grew, becoming a better, stronger, more capable person.

How you view your struggles is your choice. I choose to see my struggles as opportunities for growth and progress. There are blessings in the struggle when you choose to see them and use them to forge new pathways in your life.

~CSE

The Choice

I saw a lot of discussion on social media about the Supreme Court of the United States and their decision to legalize gay marriage throughout the country. While I do have an opinion, my goal is not to choose a side. I have many friends on both sides of the debate whom I love dearly. This is one of those issues that is not a hot button topic for me. I am good with whatever choice you make, and I will still love you regardless of your decision.

And that's the part of this discussion that people seem to be missing. Love. Pure, simple, unconditional love. 

I once saw a sign in a gift shop that spoke volumes to me. It proclaimed, "You 'Like' someone because. You 'Love' someone although." As I stopped to ponder that, the meaning became clear. You 'Like' people because they're smart or pretty or funny. The people you 'Like' are generally those you choose to hang out with because you have similar interests and get along well with. You 'Love' someone although they have flaws and do things you don't necessarily care for. Unconditional 'Love' says, "I may not always like or believe in what you do, but I will always care about you regardless."

Whether you believe being gay is good or bad, whether you believe it's a natural inclination or a choice, it's hard for me to understand not loving someone else. Real love places no conditions on the recipient. It is given freely without strings.

No matter what you believe, it is God (whoever or whatever you believe "God" to be) who will ultimately sort these things out. Why make your life more difficult fighting over beliefs?

The choice is not about whether to accept someone who is gay. It is not about judging their lifestyles or their choices. Ultimately, the choice is about whether you can love unconditionally. As for me, I choose love.

~CSE

On Choosing To Make the Unconscious Conscious

Consciousness. We get ourselves out of bed every morning and believe we are awake, but are we? We process information from our physical senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell), but what do we know of our more intuitive senses?

Some of us choose to try to access this intuitive information every day, but it does come with a price. It is not always easy to acknowledge details that are unpleasant, which some intuitive information is. Choosing also requires us to take responsibility for ourselves, something our society has programmed us not to do because it gives more power and control to those who would rule us.

The scene from the movie "The Matrix", where the character Neo makes the choice to become aware is exactly the sort of choice we are all given every day.

It takes great courage to make the decision to access unconscious knowledge. Are you ready for the rabbit hole? It may just change your life!!!

~CSE